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The original capital city of Guatemala was Antigua. It was alsocalled Guatemala, but in the early 1800s there were severalearthquakes that caused the nearby volcano Agua to er…upt. Onlyinstead of erupting with lava it erupted a huge pocket of waterflooding the entire city. Several natural disasters such as thiscaused the people to move the capital to a safer location in 1821.The old capital was renamed Antigua Guatemala (now called Antiguafor short) and the new capital got the name Guatemala City. (MORE)

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras… and El Salvador to the northeast. (MORE)

Is amazing it is the country of the eternal spring. Guatemala is a very interesting country. "How" it is depends on the part of the country you are in. There are rich parts… of the country and also very poor parts. The richer parts are generally much cleaner than the poor parts, where there is trash all around the sides of the road. In cities such as its capital, Guatemala City, the streets are quite dirty in some places and there are stray dogs running around the streets. (MORE)